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I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.
Deborah Harkness
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Deborah Harkness
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 5
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I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the world was an inexplicably powerful, magical place. Ultimately they failed, though. The magic never really went away. It waited, quietly, for people to return to it when they found the science wanting.
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And happiness is always louder than sadness.
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With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.
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English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
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We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)
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She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
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Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
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Remember the past - and await the future.
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You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
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As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.
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Desire urges me on as fear bridles me Bruno.
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Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.
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It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
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Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
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My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
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Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
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Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
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